Cancer touches every single one of us at some point, either through family and friends or directly when we sit before a medical specialist and receive the life changing news.
Cancer affects us all so it does come as a shock when we discover certain people choose to fake cancer.
Earlier this week, former Hockeyroo goalkeeper, Kate Hubble, 32, pleaded guilty to four charges of making and using false documents to obtain a financial benefit. Hubble drew two year’s salary from her employer, the cancer charity Redkite, after claiming she had cancer and forging documents from medical professionals which confirmed her fake diagnosis.
She will be sentenced on Friday.
The ultimate fake cancer charlatan in this part of the world is Belle Gibson, the twisted fantasist who was fined $410,000 late last month after Consumer Affairs Victoria brought civil action against her in the Federal Court. She was fined for five separate breaches of the Australian Consumer Law Act.
Full column here.
apologies off topic but it just so right. “Politics has pulled a Costanza”
“in terms of traditional alliances:
•Liberal and Nationals are incoherent;
•One Nation is the Nationals;
•Labor is Liberal, and
•The Greens are Labor but without the labour.
It’s post-modern politics, a pastiche of parties selectively quoting from various traditional ideologies to support today’s vested interests. Nobody has any real roots in history and all are adrift.
Anything is possible in this environment.” No surprises.
Tunny timing. I found this in an article on Macrobusiness this morning. you could level this same review at the lowlifes in this blog topic. No surprises.
“Do-nothing Malcolm is not weak. He is an empty, tactical calculus machine that would not know strategic or values-based commitment if it ran him over in a bus.
His behaviour consistently illustrates a divisive personality, by turns charming and effusive then just as quickly cold and indifferent. He raises stakeholders and issues then drops them in a heart beat. Such high charm, mercurial thinking, inability to plan and power lust are characteristic of a lack of real empathy and inability to attach with people and issues.
This stands as a stark warning to anyone that relies upon him for anything.”
Turnbull is starting to show his sinister side with his recent bullying ways pitting state against state re fracking & renewables.
Must be soul sapping to not have the courage of your convictions or an ounce of bravery to slam the smug faces of the dinosaurs he kow-tows to every waking minute, then act in accordance with his own beliefs.
Good on the Premiers of VIC & NSW, I hope they dig their heels in & never budge on their stand to protecting farmland from fracking. Australia needs a few more leaders with such a backbone.
It’s pretty simple – less gas for export = more for domestic use here so they’re going to have to wind-up the ‘arrangements’ with the corporates they take their orders from & work in the national interest.
Now that’d be something new for these dodgy self-serving gits. 😓
Bella, agree. But there is NO gas shortage. I do not believer regulated or re-nationalising the Energy market is the way to go. It will hinder investment in all forms of Energy. It is a fallacy created to cover the failures of this government on energy. The report released with a 100% Margin of area is worthless. The NEM, AEMO, AEMR the federal government have all failed and are hopelessly trying to cover their tracks and play catch up. Worst most incompetent and corrupt government in Australia’s history.
ahh 100% margin of error.
weirdo’s gotta weird mebbe?
Despicable people.
They need to be grouped with the thouands running dodgy charities – on that subject I would like to see and hear what percentage of a donation actually gets to the cause at every collection point.
Money the root of all evils I suggest, Mr Insider, and during my life have seen some deplorable things done for financial gain. Desperation seems to lead people on and on till they are caught and exposed. Feigning illness for financial gain a particular nasty crime imho when so many are out there suffering the real thing. Shame, shame, shame as the human headline Hinch would say.
I think we’re both on the same page with the revulsion over this pair Jack. The Hubble story I only saw yesterday but Gibson has been raising my hackles for a long time now. Community service? Fines? Nah, I just hope they get cancer.
It wouldn’t be too far off the mark to say that Donald Trump’s IQ is similar to the size of his hand – in inches: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41573846
I hope that it wasn’t us mug taxpayers who were slugged for Tony Abbott’s latest jaunt to spruik drivel on climate change.
Paid for by the Global Warming Policy Forum.
I wonder what motivates these people, apart from the obvious greed, to exploit others misfortunes this way?
It’s probably no more than being a sociopath.
In many cases it is simply a case of mental disorder/s. Lot of this stuff happening in the US. I guess we onky hear the cases where the faker gets caught.
https://www.medicinenet.com/munchausen_syndrome/article.htm
Perhaps these people really are mentally ill but given that so many sick cancer sufferers pinned their hopes on the likes of Gibson’s huge attention-seeking lie, I find it impossible to dredge up a zot of sympathy for her kind.
Scammers are still scammers and also worryingly, there’s an increasing number of scams out there that are targeting the most vulnerable & getting away with it. Grrr….
I don’t think the likes of Gibson deserve our sympathy, Bella. Munchausen Syndrome is a genuine affliction, but it is driven by a deep need for attention, rather than cash.
I think you were close with sociopath. And.. you could make a sociopath sit and watch a thousand children die from a hundred different cancers, the chances of them ‘getting it’, debatable. This is the very nature of their disorder, true sociopaths cant function in the ‘guilt/learning’ or even ‘pain/learning’ world.
I remember a part of a story on Martin Bryant, as a child, setting himself on fire, and the police officer (?) doctor, someone in authority saying to him “you wont do that again will you” his response was ‘why not?’, (paraphrase). We are a complicated animal Jack, and when things go wrong in the control panel, the most horrific things can happen.
Things that make the rest of humanity shudder and beg how or why. The sociopath will give you a ‘hey, thanks for the headsup on the trial’, perhaps with a smiley face!, then move right along.
We shouldnt have rocks, let alone guns.
cheers Jack